Date: Thursday, January 30, 2020
Executive Committee Meeting and Lunch | 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Murray Hill West, 2nd Floor
Committee Meetings | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Murray Hill West, 2nd Floor
Committee Civil Rights/EELS EJ Committee Panel on “Environmental Injustice:” Lead in Drinking Water | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Murray Hill West, 2nd Floor (For those registered to attend the Local and State Government Law Section CLE program)
Agency/Regulatory Updates | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Murray Hill West, 2nd Floor
Speakers: Walter Mugdan, EPA and Joseph Murphy, DEC
Business Meeting - Nomination and Section Awards | 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Murray Hill East, 2nd Floor
EELS Networking Cocktail Reception | 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Murray Hill East and West, 2nd Floor
Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Meeting Program: 8:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Grand Ballroom West, 3rd Floor | 4.0 MCLE Credits
Risky Business: Corporate Strategies for Addressing Environmental and Energy Challenges
This program will focus on the environmental and energy risks facing companies doing business in New York in this time of rapid change. This program will also cover opportunities for companies to convert environmental and new energy regulations into monetary savings while mitigating risk.
[This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys including those newly admitted.]
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction: Movie Madness
Chair: Howard M. Tollin, Esq., Sterling Environmental Services, Woodbury, NY
8:40 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. “The Day After Tomorrow”- CO2 Regulation and Weather Event Risks (1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice)
Panel Chair: George A. Rusk, Esq., George A. Rusk, Attorney at Law, Buffalo, NY
Implementation of Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and Community Risk and Resiliency Act Electric/CNG Vehicle Infrastructure Buildout:
Speaker: Jared Snyder, Esq. Deputy Commissioner, Climate, Air Resources and Energy, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY
Builder Owner/Developer Risks
Speaker: Carl Hum, Esq. Real Estate Board of New York, New York, NY
Pfizer Case Study: A Corporate Perspective on Climate Change Risk Management
Speaker: Sally Fisk, Esq. Pfizer In-house Counsel, New York, NY
9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”- Corporate Leadership Initiatives: Superfund Toxic Torts and Energy (1.0 Credit in Area of Professional Practice)
Panel Chair: Cheryl Vollweiler, Esq., Traub Lieberman, Hawthorne, NY
Superfund: Reform and New Approaches
Speaker: Benjamin Dehghi, Director, Major Remediation Projects, Honeywell, Inc., Torrance, CA
Legacy Contaminants of Emergent Concern
Speaker: Dr. Robert A. Michaels, PhD, CEP, President of RAM TRAC Corp., Schenectady, NY
The Changing Energy Landscape: Renewables, Demand Charges, Smart Meters
Speaker: James Dixon, Esq. Senior Vice President, Consolidated Edison, Ardsley, NY
10:20 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. “Show Me the Money”- Transactional Risk Mitigation Strategies (1.0 Credit in Area of Professional Practice)
Panel Chair: Daniele Cervino, Esq., Beattie & Padovano P.C. | Montvale, NJ
Liability Transfers
Speaker: Thomas Lobasso: Director Operations,, Laurel Environmental Geosciences, DPC, New York, NY
Risk Transfers
Speaker: Michele Schroeder, J.D., M.S.L, President Environmental Risk Inc., Rockville Centre, NY
Claims Transfers
Speaker: Callahan A. Spessard, Esq.,, Group Claims - Specialty Lines, Beazley Group, New York, NY
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. “The Firm”- Corporate Governance and Environmental Practice Ethical Issues (1.0 Credit in Area of Ethics)
Panel Chair: Michael J. Hecker, Esq., Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, NY
Speakers: Rick W. Kennedy, Esq., Managing Partner and former member of the Office of General Counsel, Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, NY; William J. Hochul, Jr., Esq., Former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of NY; Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Delaware North, Buffalo, NY
Luncheon | 12:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Off-site @ Mastro’s Restaurant | 1285 6th Avenue | NYC
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Byrne, Chief Environmental Counsel, Honeywell, Inc., Morristown, NJ
Section Chair: Howard M. Tollin, Esq. | Sterling Environmental Services | Woodbury, NY
Program Chairs: George A. Rusk, Esq., George A. Rusk, Attorney at Law, Buffalo, NY; Cheryl Vollweiler, Esq., Traub Lieberman, Hawthorne, NY; Michael J. Hecker, Esq., Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, NY
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